I have no idea what Music Bee is, I use Xbox Music. High Resolution screens allow for very crisp text and for those of us who use it in portrait for inking it is an ideal combination. I use the main screen in the middle spot on the slider, but there are occassions I move it up or zoom when my eyes are tired.

The biggest issue you'll run into is legacy style Win32 programs that use XP GDI Scaling misbehave on high resolution screen, you can disable scaling for this to prevent the fuzzy looking text.

I have the same trouble as the OP especially with Windows menu. I bought a pair of magnifying glasses to help.

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Prior to getting a Surface I went to the eyeglasses store and had a pair of bifocals made specifically for one purpose. Sitting at a conference table with my laptop behind an 8.5 x 11 meeting handout so the laptop is out a little further than normal. Through the bottom i can see my entire screen and materials. Through the top I can see if the person at the other end of the table is smiling or smirking. That was the criteria I gave the eye doctor and we made 3 pair before we got it right. I'm not having any trouble with the sp3 right now but its at the edge of my visual field. the computer generated first cut from the eyeglass places never works for me.

I GUESS those people at windows never really tried the usability of that high resolution thingy

everything was perfect on windows XP, A bit less on win7 and especially vista...now this high resolution decision is another pain for us to go through

do they want to disgust us about windows or what !

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XP Scaling was awful, anything over 1280x1024 started causing issues, Vista introduced Scaling that would actually work but very few ISVs used it and that continued on the vast majority of Win32 Code. WinRT Universal Apps work great on high resolution screens....

I know Im necro'ing this thread but I agree 100% with the OP, the resolution has been the cause of much anguish for me over the last 2 weeks of ownership of the SP3. I wish it would just 'work' like my apple products. =(

I know Im necro'ing this thread but I agree 100% with the OP, the resolution has been the cause of much anguish for me over the last 2 weeks of ownership of the SP3. I wish it would just 'work' like my apple products. =(

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OS X and iOS didn't need to maintain backwards compatibility because of market position and usage, Windows did.... the Modern UI Scales quite well, the desktop doesn't. Windows 10 is replacing many of the desktop interfaces with MUI Ones that are Windowed to give the appearance that they are updated Win32 elements.

everything was perfect on windows XP, A bit less on win7 and especially vista...now this high resolution decision is another pain for us to go through

do they want to disgust us about windows or what !

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Because there was no high resolution screen in the XP era, of course there was no problem back then.

Vista/7 era brought higher res ~150dpi screen, which was still usable with the standard 100% scaling. Think about those FHD 13-15" laptops. And finally, Windows 8 era is all about pixel. Think about it, in the last 2 years, we crossed 200dpi, and some tablets have even crossed the 300dpi density. Its even more ridiculous in smartphones. It took them a decade to move from 100dpi to 150dpi, but only a couple of years to double up to 300dpi. Just if it hasn't convince you enough, we even have a web browser laptop called 'pixel'.

Try using the SP3 with 200% scaling, its just as dense as a 13" 1366x768 laptop you had a few years ago (mind=blown). Anything less than that isn't that comfortable for me